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Trump Gives Displaced IT Workers Attention, and He's Not Alone (computerworld.com)
dcblogs writes: The H-1B visa issue is getting more attention than it has ever received before. Donald Trump has invited laid-off Disney workers to speak at his rallies, and has posed in photos with them. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), held a press conference this week to complain that visa workers are being hired instead of U.S. workers. Legislation to reform the visa program has been introduced, and discrimination complaints are being filed with federal agencies and in the courts. But these efforts may have little impact. If visa restrictions arrive, IT services firms may increase reliance on web-based "knowledge transfer" to avoid having visa workers at an employer's site. There have also been reports of U.S. workers traveling overseas to train replacements on foreign soil. [Even with all the political and legal efforts,] there's no certainty any action will derail the forces moving IT jobs overseas.
The end result may be a boom in tech businesses that choose to do business where these cheap labor pools are available.
Like manufacturing jobs returning the US because China is getting too expensive?
But despite what the rhetoric would have us believe, global manufacturing is trending in a positive direction for the U.S. Factory jobs are on the rise here, and many of these new jobs are coming back to North America from China, which is struggling to maintain its manufacturing capacity. Since March, 2010, when manufacturing employment in the U.S. hit a trough of 11.45 million jobs, nearly a million new factory positions have been created, most of them in the Southern states, particularly North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Better still, the jobs are typically good ones: across that same five-year period, average hourly manufacturing wages have increased over ten per cent, to more than twenty dollars. On the whole, U.S. manufacturing, as measured by the Purchasing Managers' Index, has steadily expanded.
http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/why-donald-trump-is-wrong-about-manufacturing-jobs-and-china
Good thoughts.. the key is that the firms that move offshore should not get free access to the American market. If I make an iPhone app, I have to pay Apple for the right to sell it in their app store. The same should be for companies moving offshore. They can still do business in the US but they have to pay generous taxes for the right to do so. Otherwise they can just give unfair competition to businesses that would otherwise start in the US and sell in the US.
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
US foreign aid to Mexico, currently $560 million a year.
Wall cost, from $4 billion to $20 billion (John Oliver's inflated number). so between 8 and 40 years foreign aid to Mexico cut and you pay for wall. Reduce welfare given to illegals from Mexico and wall is paid for sooner. That is not raising taxes on US citizens a single cent, and making Mexico "pay for it". Typically budgeting at Federal level is done over 10 year period, so that gives Trump about $5.6 billion for a wall using GAO numbers, and a bit more if he can estimate welfare costs for them as well.
Mexico can go fuck themselves if they think the US protecting its own border is a bad thing. Their presidents talking that way on US television just makes the majority agree with the wall more.
Let's go with the assumption posited so frequently by the press that Donald Trump called women Bimbos and Pigs. He never said 'All women are bimbos and pigs'. He said 'Rosie O'Donnel is a pig' and 'Megyn Kelly is a bimbo'. By this same logic, it could be said that Bill Clinton thinks all women want a cigar up their coochie, which explains a lot really.
Same thing with illegal immigrants. Trump never said 'All illegal immigrants are murderers, rapists and drug dealers'. Maybe that is what you heard, but in reality that is what he said Mexico is sending us. Along with some good people. There were good Nazis and good Communists and good Anarchists, Chumbawamba and Noam Chomsky I guess, but none of that matters. Being a nation of immigrants doesn't mean we have no system of immigration. We have had varying levels of control through out our history. Until now, where there is a system that is being completely ignored and subverted by Presidential decree.
The H1B stuff is more of the same. There is direct evidence of companies violating key provisions and except for social media and the press, not much is being done.
If nothing else, Trump running means the Democrats and about 1/2 the Republicans will never again be able to offer amnesty for a promise to build the wall. That ship has sailed.
Let's be clear: I voted for Ron Paul in 2008, and Barrack Obama in 2012.
I'm voting for Trump in 2016 because:
A) I think he is hilarious and don't want the comedy to stop
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B) because I want to watch the Republican party burn to the ground after the way they treated Ron Paul in 2012.
If it were up to me: Hillary Clinton would nominate Ted Cruz as her VP and Donald Trump would Nominate Bernie Sanders and we could rebrand the Republican Party the "Antiestablishment Party" and the Republicrats would have a unity ticket called the "Establishment Party".
When liberals misconstrue my intentions as being "passions that have been inflamed by casual racism": they disarm themselves of their ability to counter my influence by fundamentally misunderstanding my motivations.
I don't support Trump because I hate muslims or black people... I'm on the #trumptrain because I want to see the world burn and I think Trump is crazy enough to light the match. Once you stop confusing my fatalist intent for ignorance, you'll be better equipped to dissuade me. I'm letting you in on the joke because it makes the inevitable punchline that much funnier if you saw the ground rushing up at you and were unable to stop it.
Until then, your trite assumption that my political preferences are born from ignorance or bigotry just further fans the flames of my conviction. It's a shame that Bernie is wasting his time on the Democrats. He would make a powerful ally.
I've lost count of the articles and clickbait headlines I've read saying Trump is only supported by "uneducated" or "mentally stunted" people, as if you have to be stupid or the result of inbreeding to even consider voting for him. To the people writing this tripe, I say: Stop it, you arrogant fucks. People who support Trump do so because they're sick of professional politicians, Hillary (100% corrupt pants-suit wearing power hag), Bernie (dope-smoking loser who would have trouble getting a job as a Wal-Mart greeter had he not somehow stumbled into a job as a Senator). It's not a matter of them being stupid, it's a matter of them being fed up. Yes, he's a blowhard, and he's kind of an asshole. But really, which presidential candidate this time around isn't? They're all cut from the same cloth, except Trump. Say what you will about him, he's different. I hope he wins, just to piss these people off.
I'm going to vote for any candidate who will clamp down on or preferably eliminate H1-B visas. If Trump promises to do that then I will vote for Trump. Anyone from the Trump campaign listening? You want to win IT worker votes, especially in California and New York? Promise IT workers that you will end H1-B visas and don't pay attention to what Silicon Valley poobahs at FWD.US say, they aren't the rank and file IT workers who maintain the servers, write the software and design the IT systems.
> And we "knew" what Obama would do ?
Well, since you can't be bothered to google it yourself, I did it for you.
He's only broken 22% out of 500+ campaign promises. That is slightly above average for presidents.
THIS is why we should all be scared. Somewhere along the line, Americans stopped fearing the devastation that the LEFT is historically responsible for.
Stalin, Hitler, Mao, and the list goes on. Given enough leeway, the radical LEFT kills millions.
You're afraid of Trump? Don't be. Be afraid of the LEFT.
Who is silencing free speech on campus? Who is rioting and demanding rallies be canceled? Who is getting professors fired from their jobs? Who's calling for "muscle" to get pesky journalists removed?
I don't care if you're a Democrat. Democrats are fine. But the rise of the radical LEFT is 100% not fine. Be afraid. This shit is not something we want to mess with, and it's rising fast. And the Democrats aren't doing nearly enough to silence the rabble in their ranks.
Historically speaking, this ends with lots of bloodshed. And historically speaking the LEFT will be to blame.
You need to dig deeper into the politically correct thing as many of the stories are later retracted or turn out to be fabrications.
Good example: Student win of track race retracted after he makes a gesture thanking god... reality... later the parents and the student both retracted their statements and admitted that he had made taunting gestures to the other team.
Don't get me wrong-- I think the left does suppress free speach and does do the political correctness thing.
But the right has played into that and used it to their advantage to make it seem much more outrageous than it really is.
The teacher who was fired for giving her personal bible to a student... turns out she gave lots of personal bibles to lots of students.
And so on.
One of the main reasons I left the republican party was because they passed the normal level of lying by politicians. They turned strongly to "the ends justify the means"
They abandoned the political tradition required to make this country function: Argue in chambers and then go to dinner together afterwards. Negotiate and compromise. They just don't do that any more since GW Bush Jr's 1st term. And they became the party of "NO" in 2009. At that point, I stopped voting for them entirely. Even local offices.
It's not good behavior for the country.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
Trump IS the establishment and has been in it since birth so I really don't get why people think he's an "outsider". He used his party connections four times to escape from consequences of bankruptcy. Also this is not his first tilt at President so he's got a very firm grip on the party machinery.
Because I didn't say something about Trump being a saint I'm sure some loser will irrelevantly bring up Hillary. Personally I think Trump is about the only choice from the last fifty years of Republican history that would make Hillary look good in comparison (even Nixon and Ford look better, and I'm still pissed off with Ford taking a bribe from Indonesia in 1975).
It's really a poverty problem and US politics is about the top end of town. Trying to fix racism issues without fixing poverty issues does not get a lot done.
Hitler, Franco, and Mussolini were socialists. Calling them "radical right" is falling in the trap of the communists, who put themselves as the only possible "left" ideology and call "right" every other form of socialism. Also, socialists are quick to dismiss regimes that fail as "truly socialists", you will notice that as soon as a country bankrupts due to the failures socialist government, the previous supporters stops calling that government "socialist".
The horseshoe theory is wrong, because it makes the assumption that fascists and nazis are on the radical right of the spectrum, when they are actually no different from the rest of radical left groups that despise each other and call themselves their only valid form of socialism.
If it is so hard for you to grasp this concept, look at most of the socialists regimes in south america: they are openly nationalists, militarists, racists, bigots, and religious. So, are they actually radical right? Nope, they are SOCIALISTS.
Hitler and Stalin were best friends until they started attacking each other, because the LEFT cannot ever agree to anything that is not 100% in their single benefit, and if you refuse to pledge to all their demands, they react violently, like spoiled babies and orangutans.
He's addressing a genuine, serious issue in the US, regardless of some of the dumb shit he says or how he presents himself, the raging loony SJW types can point fingers at racism this, sexism that (heck they might be right) they need to acknowledge that serious issues like this exist.
Bernie is similar (despite being entirely different) in that he doesn't seem to mince words and he seems to be on point on key important issues to the common man, not bullshit fluff which sounds important but is meaningless drivel.
I still have a bit of schadenfreude though for a Trump win, just for the total comedy of it all, the regressive left will lose their fucking minds. (However a shame ultimately as I do lean more left than right)
All that being said, my opinion is dog shit useless on this, I'm just a foreigner who just picks up things here and there thanks to the US-centric internet. I just want Turnbull to fuck off with his negative gearing housing bubble bullshit (this won't mean much, to most of you)
Back on topic, H1B is a legit complaint from what I've read online, they fucking force you guys to train your replacements, then fly the bastards in for 60/90/180 (??) days at a time and it still works out cheaper. It's fucking disgusting. Globalisation has been good and AWFUL for the middle class and lower, y'all (me included) getting royally ass fucked (but hey, at least toasters are now $11 a pop instead of $41!!! yay?)